☀️ The Good Life - 06/18/2023 - Surfing today
I’m going surfing this morning. Something I haven’t done in over thirty years. I’m already prepared for failure; ready to simply float...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 17, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/17/2023 - All along the coast
Exhausted… But what a fun day yesterday was. Hiko is here, and we shared the day and I showed him around. I overdid it, probably, which...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 16, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Hikosaemon is here
Today, I rendezvous with the past—my JVLOG past. That once lived life in Japan as a peripheral member of a loose community of ex-pat...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 15, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Free to enter the sea
Today I’m free again and can go back into the sea. The wound in my side is fully healed and my damaged leg is much better. However, I’ve...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 14, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/14/2023 - My tumor is benign *
The hole in my body is nearly healed. The gash in my side where a surgeon cut me open to dig out a tumor to see what it is. It’s benign....
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Kurt Bell
Jun 13, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/13/2023 - Rats at the edge of a sea
Yumiko and I were both very tired after work yesterday… We walked the dogs together slowly along a meandering circuit through the angled...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 12, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/12/2023 - In a barrel towards Niagara
It’s nice getting old. There’s no age better than now, though I expect tomorrow might be better still. Sure, I’m a bit crippled with...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 11, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/11/2023 - Higher up the mountain *
Today feels like waking up upon a great mountain. The clean, cold air up here is bracing. And the aching muscles of the climb to get here...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 10, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/10/2023 - Return of the Muse
Poetry of a sort has joined me at the guitar. Nearly every evening, while Yumiko prepares dinner, I sit in the garden with a glass of red...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 9, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/09/2023 - No longer very afraid *
I cannot remember the last time I couldn’t sleep. My nights have become like the nights of my youth. Hard asleep at bedtime and fast...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 8, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/08/2023 - Time to sell the bike
It’s time to sell my motorcycle. I don’t want or need it anymore. My riding days are done. Never again do I wish to ride. That part of my...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 7, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/07/2023 - A young man at work
I was at the office yesterday and a young coworker asked about my book. I had a copy in my bag which I signed and gave to him. The smile...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 6, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/06/2023 - Life’s a stage
Parenthood now reminds me of the childhood years, in particular the school events where our kid was an actor in the play, participating...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 5, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/05/2023 - Log above a stream *
My well being lately seems balanced on a log. I’m like a young boy crossing over a stream on a fallen tree. Altogether, I feel pretty...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 3, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Body on the beach
A dead man washed up on the beach this week. He’d been out there a long time. It was those big waves, I think. The ones that scare me....
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Kurt Bell
Jun 2, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Candlelit years
We’ve new neighbors. A young family. There’s a small boy and a little white dog named Bunny. They radiate such energy and illumination!...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 1, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Intervention *
Intervention! Yumiko and I were intervened, stopped in our tracks, prevented by our daughter from making a big mistake. I was sitting in...
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Kurt Bell
May 31, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/31/2023 - After surgery
Yesterday went well. My surgery is complete and I should know more in a week. My thinking is still active though I’ve little now to write...
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Kurt Bell
May 30, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/30/2023 - Afraid of the sea
Surgery today. I’m having a growing tumor removed from my abdomen, along with its friend, another bump growing nearby. This is the season...
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Kurt Bell
May 29, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/29/2023 - Ready for “I do”
I’m nervous about today. Today’s the darn day. The day we might decide to buy that old house in Japan. Picking a place to buy now feels...
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